Away from football, and the upcoming meeting between Saudi Arabia and Argentina shortly in the 2022 World Cup, we hear about the famous Tango dance, but because Argentina is the country of contradictions, its name does not indicate an ethnic origin or something that distinguishes it from the neighboring countries, but the name came on the construction of a construction transformation Spanish colonialism.
Originally, the word Argentina is derived from the Latin word Argentium, which means silver, knowing that Argentina does not contain any sources of silver, but it was called so because the Spanish invaders came to those lands after the spread of rumors that they contain mountains of silver.
The first use of Argentina’s word could be followed until the year 1602 AD in a poem by the poet Martin del Parko Sentra, but the name was not circulating until the eighteenth century.
The name was officially used for the first time in the constitution of 1826 AD, in which the Republic of Argentina and the nation of Argentina were used, the constitution was canceled and the name was transformed into the Argentine Union, which was the word used in the constitution of 1853 AD. Later, the name was also modified to the nation of Argentina in 1859 AD and finally amended to become the Republic of Argentina again in 1860 AD after the state took its current organization..
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